Motivational Quotes

Children

You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.

- Lois McMaster Bujold

Best Quotes about Children

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

Bachelard, Gaston

The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children.

King Edward VIII

You may give them your love but not your thoughts. For they have their own thoughts. You may house their bodies but not their souls, for their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

Gibran, Kahlil

There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

Proverb

Each child is an adventure into a better life --an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.

Humphrey, Hubert H.

We do our children no favour by keeping them near, coddling them, or showing them off to adult visitors. Not that a nursemaid does not sometimes spoil them. But the greatest favour we can do our children is to give visible example of love and esteem to our spouse. As they grow up, they may then look forward to maturity so they too can find such love.

Eucharista Ward

Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Hunt, Leigh

Too many parents are not on spanking terms with their children.

Children need love, especially when they don't deserve it.

Hulbert, Harold

10.

Children are the keys of paradise.

Stoddard, Richard Henry

11.

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Sam Levenson

12.

Too often when give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve.

Lewin, Roger

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We must teach our children to dream with their eyes open.

Edwards, Harry

14.

Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.

Plomp, John

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Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.

Mead, Margaret

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Children are living jewels dropped unsustained from heaven.

Pollok, Robert

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Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Lawana Blackwell

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Be gentle with the young.

Juvenal

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In all our efforts to provide advantages we have actually produced the busiest, most competitive, highly pressured, and over-organized generation of youngsters in our history.

Shan, Eda J. Le

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If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

Updike, John

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A child is a beam of sunlight from the Infinite and Eternal, with possibilities of virtue and vice- but as yet unstained.

Abbott, Lyman

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Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight.

Watts, Isaac

24.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

Jackson, Jesse

25.

Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.

Robert Orben

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I must take issue with the term'a mere child,'for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.

Fran Lebowitz

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It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.

Bombeck, Erma

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If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

29.

It takes three to make a child.

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.)

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We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.

Tauscher, Stacia

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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.

Kraus, Karl

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For many children, joy comes as the result of mining something unique and wondrous about themselves from some inner shaft.

Cottle, Thomas J.

33.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child!

William Shakespeare

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Kids use to ask where they came from, now they tell you where to go

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Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

Hazzard, Shirley

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It is dangerous to confuse children with angels.

Fyfe, David

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Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him. [Proverbs 22:15]

Bible

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Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

Wilder, Thornton

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Your children will see what you're all about by what you live rather than what you say.

Dyer, Wayne

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Children are all foreigners.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Marquez, Gabriel Garcia

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For success in training children the first condition is to become as a child oneself, but this means no assumed childishness, no condescending baby-talk that the child immediately sees through and deeply abhors. What it does mean is to be as entirely and simply taken up with the child as the child himself is absorbed by his life.

Key, Ellen

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Our children will not survive our habits of thinking, our failures of the spirit, our wreck of the universe into which we bring new life as blithely as we do. Mostly, our children will resemble our own misery and spite and anger, because we give them no choice about it. In the name of motherhood and fatherhood and education and good manners, we threaten and suffocate and bind and ensnare and bribe and trick children into wholesale emulation of our ways.

Jordan, June

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My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Groucho Marx

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There are few successful adults who were not first successful children.

Chase, Alexander

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As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

Adams, John

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There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.

Churchill, Winston

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A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

Groucho Marx

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D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth